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Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade
Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object.'"
Or am I missing something?
You are. Open sores developers don't care what their users want. It's not "1337" if you actually fix things in response to user feedback on usability. That's the reason why there are so many plugins to restore the "awesome" bar back to something resembling the original URL bar.
Maybe you don't want your wife and kids to have porn urls popping up on the browser
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Wrong. Maybe you just need a wife who is into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.
Is watching others have sex instead of having sex with your spouse healthy?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Hah, are you kidding me!? I date girls that don't care if I look at porn because they like it too, and I'm not gonna marry anyone so prudish that she cares, because it's just porn! My only concern would be my kids finding it, but really I'd just have my own user account or my own computer so it wouldn't be a big deal.
The original poster was concerned about their wife and kids seeing their porn links. All I said is that if you don't want them seeing your porn collection, maybe you shouldn't look at porn. I didn't make a judgmental statement, simply a logical one. Clearly, they have a different concern than you do, so it wouldn't be an issue for you.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
People will try and get the government to take of it so they bear no personal responsibility. Just like they've been trying to do for the past decade with things like Social Security or health care.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
You're far worse than any Christian I know.
Which is nothing but a bald-faced lie as you well know.
All I did was give a 100% accurate description of the beliefs of Christians. I'll note that you are completely unable to actually refute any facts and all you did was resort to ad hominem attacks due to the fact that you don't even have a valid point.
Your militant death grip on your delusions is pathetic.
but with far more anger, fear, insults, and threats of violence.
Talk about hypocrisy.
And again, you're nothing but a liar. There was no anger, fear or threats of violence. The only way anything I said could be taken as an insult would be if you find the truth insulting. The hypocrisy is all yours, god botherer.